J.G. Ballard

Richard Brown is Reader in Modern Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds and the author of much academic work on James Joyce including A Companion to James Joyce (Blackwell, 2008) and on contemporary writers ranging from Ian McEwan to Bob Dylan. His essay “Reading J.G. Ballard after the Millennium: the Scars of Crash, Cocaine Nights and Millennium People” appeared in the Millennial Fictions special issue of Critical Engagements (Autumn/Winter 2008). Christopher Duffy is a doctoral candidate at the University of Leeds working on a thesis titled “Heterotopic Space in Selected Works of J. G. Ballard”. He has taught English Literature at the University of Leeds. Elizabeth Stainforth is a doctoral candidate at the University of Leeds. Her research explores memory’s significance for cultural heritage in the wake of digital technologies. She has worked as a researcher and University teacher and librarian and is one of the editors of the journal parallax.

• Author BiographiesList of FiguresStandard AbbreviationsIntroductionFay Ballard – Shanghai/Shepperton1. Graham Matthews – J. G. Ballard and the Drowned World of Shanghai2. Thomas Knowles – Aeolian Harps in the Desert: Romanticism and Vermilion Sands3. Catherine McKenna – Zones of Non-Time: Residues of Iconic Events in Ballard’s Fiction 4. Andrew Warstat – Speeding to the Doldrums: Stalled Futures and the Disappearance of Tomorrow in “The Dead Astronaut” 5. Richard Brown – Jarry, Joyce and the Apocalyptic Intertextuality of The Atrocity Exhibition6. Guglielmo Poli – Geometries of the Imagination: The Map-Territory Relation in The Atrocity Exhibition 7. Elizabeth Stainforth – “The Logic of the Visible at the Service of the Invisible”: Reading Invisible Literature in The Atrocity Exhibition8. Christopher Duffy – Hidden Heterotopias in Crash9. William Fingleton – Pillars of the Community: The Tripartite Characterisation of High-Rise10. Jeanette Baxter – Fascisms and the Politics of Nowhere in Kingdom ComeIndex